Kasabian, a group of rockers from Leicester, recently won Best British Band at the NME Awards. Their last three albums, …

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As dance music makes it mark in North America, another big-in-Britain phenomenon is losing ground in the former colonies.

Kasabian, a group of rockers from Leicester, recently won Best British Band at the NME Awards. Their last three albums, including 2011’s psychedelic groove monster, Velociraptor!, hit No. 1 on the UK charts. This summer, the foursome will headline two of their homeland’s biggest summer festivals: Reading and Leeds.

On this side of the Atlantic, however, Kasabian’s fortunes fade with each passing album. Since the release of their debut, Kasabian, which spawned their biggest across-the-pond single, Club Foot, the rockers have sold fewer and fewer copies of subsequent releases in the U.S., according to Billboard. Not surprisingly, bassist Chris Edwards and his bandmates are relegated to playing 1,500-person venues, such as the Edmonton Event Centre, while their compatriots in Coldplay sell out hockey arenas across the continent.

“We started doing a lot in 2004, 2005,” says Edwards. “It was slowly going up and up and up, the crowds were getting bigger — going from 300 to 1,500 or 2,000, so it was getting there, but then we just concentrated on other places and didn’t really go back. So we’re not really bothered that we’re not big (in North America) because, to be honest, when we were there we only had one album. Now we’ve got a catalogue of four albums, B-sides and everything, and we’re a major force when it comes to playing live now. So, I think, it’s now or kinda never. It’s definitely a place we’d like to tour more often, it’s nice to go over to the States, get on a bus, go into Canada. We’ve never played Edmonton or Calgary, so we’re looking forward to that. We’re going to try to put in a lot of work this year and see what comes out.”

Kasabian perform Friday, April 6 at EEC. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $27.50 plus service charges at Ticketmaster.